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Rock Island, Ill
Dec. 21, 1907
Dear Mabel:
School -going and 'exams; and things of that order are of the past for a while, and in the meantime we are or ought to be as thrill as birds.
School closed Thursday afternoon and in the evening we had a xmas program in the chapel. After that a great number went to the station, some intending to leave for vacation and others to see others off. Nearly all the students have left now, so it's as lonely as well can be.
The 'company' you send me at Thanksgiving time was highly appreciated. I wish you would furnish me with company now too, but with the more personal kind, you know!
I think that I'll stay here during vacation. Mamma tells me that I had better go with Hilda to Chicago, or I'll be studying just as much as if school were in session. But I'm going to try to stay home and be good.
The prediction about that party earned true, we made candy and ate it (the part that was edible0 until we were more than satisfied.
Of course I would very much have liked to attend the closing program at your school, and to have seen Santa and perhaps taste his candy, if he were the very magnificent kind of Santa, but the part about speaking a place frightened me because I have forgotten the ones I knew long years ago. But with thirty-one other pieces, I might have been excused.
I believe our S.S. 'fest' will be the twenty sixth. The young people will wake in the New Year properly with a program, etc.
These are about the only events that will take place here till school begins again.
Now, Mabel, I wish you a very merry Xmas, and hope that you will enjoy your holidays very much.
With greetings to all I am
Your friend
Carl.
Write Soon.

Rock Island, Ill
Dec. 21, 1907
Dear Mabel:
School -going and 'exams; and things of that order are of the past for a while, and in the meantime we are or ought to be as thrill as birds.
School closed Thursday afternoon and in the evening we had a xmas program in the chapel. After that a great number went to the station, some intending to leave for vacation and others to see others off. Nearly all the students have left now, so it's as lonely as well can be.
The 'company' you send me at Thanksgiving time was highly appreciated. I wish you would furnish me with company now too, but with the more personal kind, you know!
I think that I'll stay here during vacation. Mamma tells me that I had better go with Hilda to Chicago, or I'll be studying just as much as if school were in session. But I'm going to try to stay home and be good.
The prediction about that party earned true, we made candy and ate it (the part that was edible0 until we were more than satisfied.
Of course I would very much have liked to attend the closing program at your school, and to have seen Santa and perhaps taste his candy, if he were the very magnificent kind of Santa, but the part about speaking a place frightened me because I have forgotten the ones I knew long years ago. But with thirty-one other pieces, I might have been excused.
I believe our S.S. 'fest' will be the twenty sixth. The young people will wake in the New Year properly with a program, etc.
These are about the only events that will take place here till school begins again.
Now, Mabel, I wish you a very merry Xmas, and hope that you will enjoy your holidays very much.
With greetings to all I am
Your friend
Carl.
Write Soon.